In a head-on collision between two trains of the SBB five of them 35 people were injured in the vicinity of Granges-près-Marnand in Vaud, heavy. One of the drivers is still missing.

In Granges-près-Marnand (VD) are on the evening of Monday 29 July 2013 two trains collided. While 44 people were injured, four seriously.

In Granges-près-Marnand (VD) are on the evening of Monday 29 July 2013 two trains collided. While 44 people were injured, four seriously. "As hard as the crash was, it could have been dead," says the eyewitness against "24 heures". Police, fire, several ambulances and a helicopter are on site. The cause of the accident is still unclear. The passengers of the two trains on the scene. To the collision between the two trains came around 19 clock directly at the exit from the Granges-Marnand station. The SBB reports an interruption of the line Palézieux - Payerne. S-Bahn trains are between Moudon and Payerne from Lausanne to Payerne. Rail replacement buses are mobilized.

On the route between Lucens in Granges-Marnand two SBB trains have collided. Five people were seriously injured in the crash, 35 others suffered minor injuries. The collision occurred when a train arrived at the station, while another drove away, as Pierre-Olivier Gaudard, media spokesman for the Vaud cantonal police said on request. Of a train driver could not be found so far, as told Jean-Crhistophe Sauterel of the Kapo Vaud site at a press conference at 20.30 clock.

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The five seriously injured have been transferred to the University Hospital of Lausanne, CHUV. The community Vallbroye put a hall available where the injured could be accommodated. The rescue work has focused on the locomotives, the spokesman clarified. The SBB speak their condolences to the injured. More information will follow in the course of the evening.

"24 heures" initially quoted an eyewitness who spoke of around 30 injured. "As hard as the crash was, it could have been dead," says the eyewitness to the online edition of the newspaper. Police, fire, several ambulances and a helicopter are on site.

To the collision between the two trains came around 19 clock directly at the exit from the Granges-Marnand station. The SBB reports an interruption of the line Palézieux - Payerne. S-Bahn trains are between Moudon and Payerne from Lausanne to Payerne. Rail replacement buses are mobilized." from the article below

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The Associated Press reported that a train containing flammable and corrosive material derailed near the town of Lawton, La. on the afternoon of Sunday, August 4, 2013. U.S. 190 east was closed indefinitely. (Google Maps)

"LAWTELL, La. (AP) -- State police say at least 26 railroad cars have derailed in St. Landry Parish, closing U.S. 190 east of Lawtell.

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A BNSF train carrying consumer products derailed in the area of NS 330 and Comanche Rd., about two miles north and one mile east of Waynoka. [Photo Courtesy: Spencer Albracht]

Emergency crews are on the scene of a train derailment near Waynoka, Oklahoma, Sunday morning.

At about 7:30 a.m. a BNSF train carrying consumer products derailed in the area of NS 330 and Comanche Rd., about two miles north and one mile east of Waynoka. The train was heading westbound to Los Angeles at the time.

Authorities say the train was going 56 mph when it derailed. The speed limit is 60 mph.

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A newer bullet trains are using magnetised rails and wheels so the wheels actually don't touch on the rail when it's running fast. There's a mass of air in between the wheels and rails, if my memory is correct.

If for some reason the rails for usual trails were magnetised and the wheels, too, while they are approaching towards "far more magnetised areas"/particular areas of rails, normal wheels of trains also got magnetised and thus even for very thin air occurring in between the wheels AND the rails, could that help the train ACCELERATED BEFORE the derailment?

The issue is the rails and wheels must be magnetised with the same pole ends to repel one another away to get the idea work, though.

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sounds kinda like how the monorail in Seattle runs. on a cushion and no wheels or cars really touch the rail, but it doesn't really have wheels either, just the rail that the train rides on. Hmmm. Then does the bullet train travel on a special track that other trains don't travel on ? I will have to do some checking into this, but by golly if anyone else has any clues or info I'd sure be interested too.

Montana Rail Link spokesperson Lynda Frost says the incident happened four miles east of Superior at around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Frost tells MTN News that 24 cars of the 66-car long train derailed, with four of which ended up partially in the Clark Fork River. Two of those are empty fuel cars and the other two empty cars are used to transport sugar.

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Just wanted to put out a few interesting details about Wednesday’s crash of a UPS cargo plane (Airbus A300) near Alabama airport at around 5am on Wednesday 14th August 2013 as it approached Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport

From this Chicago Tribune story:

There was a big explosion that lit up the sky. It jarred the earth.

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No distress calls were made to the airport tower, according to April Odom, a spokeswoman for Bell.

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“It was quite a large fire and there were two to three explosions after the plane caught fire, after the crash itself,” Bell said.

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Pedro Torres, who lives about two blocks from the crash site, saw “a big flash” from the window of his home when the plane went down.

Officials work at the scene of an accident involving a bus and a train in Ottawa September 18, 2013.

As the Transportation Safety Board of Canada continues to investigate the fatal crash involving a train and city bus in Ottawa earlier this week, a somber coincidence has linked the train to another fatal collision two years ago.

The locomotive pulling the passenger train toward Toronto on Wednesday appears to be the same locomotive that collided with a truck driven by 22-year-old John Jobson near Glencoe, Ont., on July 29, 2011.

Images obtained as part of separate Transportation Safety Board investigations appear to be of the same vehicle. In each case, the locomotive is numbered 915, with the code EPA-42A included on its side. Other traits appear similar, including light placement and design. A Via Rail spokesperson confirmed the same locomotive was present in both collisions.

A website called Canadian Railway Observations, which tracks Via Rail's fleet, says locomotive No. 915 was previously damaged in a collision and repainted Renaissance green.

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Officials say chemicals from the fracking process may have led to last month's deadly train explosion that vaporized dozens of Québecois.

When a train carrying 72 cars of North Dakota oil derailed in Quebec July 6, killing 47 people and destroying a small community, the attention focussed on what went wrong on the rails. Yet a new railway-sponsored investigation is indicating the concern should have been directed at the substances found inside the oil tankers.

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More than 30 people were injured Monday morning after two trains running on the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line tracks collided, CTA officials confirmed.The accident happened just before 8 a.m. at Harlem Avenue and Interstate 290 in Forest Park, a northwest suburb that surrounds much of O'Hare International Airport. A westbound train that stopped at the Harlem station was struck by an out-of-service train heading toward the Loop, officials said.

Sources within the Chicago Transit Authority said Monday morning investigators are looking into the possibility that one of the CTA Blue Line trains involved in a collision in Forest Park might have been taken from the yard without authorization.

Forest Park mayor Anthony Calderone said the crash site is being treated as a crime scene.

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The local branch of the ministry said in an earlier statement that 44 people had died when the jet, arriving from Moscow's Domodedovo airport, crashed on landing in the city of Kazan at 7:25 pm (1525 GMT).

The Tatarstan Airlines plane "hit the runway and burst into flames", Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The news agency ITAR-TASS said the plane then "exploded", quoting a local police source.

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"(Reuters) - A commuter ferry crossing the Hudson River from Manhattan with two dozen passengers aboard crashed into a pier in New Jersey, on Friday, injuring seven people aboard, four of whom were taken to a hospital, but none was badly hurt, officials said.

The cause of the late-afternoon mishap at the ferry landing along the Jersey City waterfront was under investigation, a New York Police Department spokesman said.

The New York Waterway ferry was arriving in Jersey City after crossing the river from lower Manhattan, near the World Financial Center, when the vessel made a "hard landing" at J. Owen Grundy Park Pier, waterway spokesman Pat Smith said.

The ferry was carrying 24 passengers and three crew members at the time, according to Smith."

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"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Four people were killed and 63 injured when a Metro-North commuter train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx, officials said.

All of the train’s seven cars came off the curved track about 100 feet north of the Spuyten Duyvil station around 7:20 a.m., MTA officials said. One car came to rest feet from the Harlem River.

Three of the dead were found outside the train, and one was found inside, authorities said. Their families haven’t yet been notified.

Eleven people are believed to be in critical condition, authorities said. The train operator was among the dozens injured, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

NewYork Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center spokesman Brian Dotson said the medical facility had received 17 patients in total – 14 at the main hospital in Washington Heights and three more at the Allen Pavilion location in the Bronx.

Four of the patients at Columbia Presbyterian were in critical condition, Dotson told CBS 2.

"Five days after a fatal Metro-North Railroad derailment in the Bronx, the Federal Railroad Administration issued an emergency order on Friday requiring the agency to have two people in place to operate trains where major speed limits exist.

The order, directed to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates Metro-North, said the extra personnel would be required until the agency updates its signal system to better enforce speed limits.

The order calls on Metro-North to provide the railroad administration with a list of main track locations with a maximum speed reduction of more than 20 miles per hour. The railroad is to identify “appropriate modifications to its existing automatic train control system or other signal systems to enable adequate advance warning of and adherence to such speed restrictions,” the administration said.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also sent a letter on Friday to the authority’s chairman, Thomas F. Prendergast, whom he appointed to head the state agency earlier this year. He asked the authority to “consider and evaluate” a range of measures, including the use of a confidential system to report “close calls.” In its letter on Tuesday, the railroad administration instructed the authority to adopt such a system."